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Revolution Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

28 Revolution quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari paints a vivid picture of upheaval, tracing how revolutions reshape societies and minds. His 28 quotations blend history with forward‑looking speculation, offering a compact yet thought‑provoking look at the forces that turn the world upside down.

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“What happened in the Cognitive Revolution?”

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“the Agricultural Revolution was a terrible catastrophe.”

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“Most existing nations evolved only after the Industrial Revolution.”

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“Up until the nineteenth century, the vast majority of military revolutions were the product of organisational rather than technological changes.”

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“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet”

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“PRIOR TO THE Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively on the Afro-Asian landmass.”

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“Apparently, even at the time of the Cognitive Revolution, different Sapiens groups had different dialects.”

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“Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.”

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“essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”

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“Revolutions are, by definition, unpredictable. A predictable revolution never erupts. Why”

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Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that.

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“In many cases, this doomed the refugees to starvation. Farmers, therefore, tended to stay put and fight to the bitter end. 12.…

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“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it…

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“In order to mount a revolution, numbers are never enough. Revolutions are usually made by small networks of agitators rather than by…

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“The mental renovations of the first Cognitive Revolution gave Homo sapiens access to the intersubjective realm and turned them into the rulers…

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“By equating the human experience with data patterns, Dataism undermines our primary source of authority and meaning and heralds a tremendous religious…

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“Science, industry and military technology intertwined only with the advent of the capitalist system and the Industrial Revolution. Once this relationship was…

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“At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It has demonstrated again and again that there is no…

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“Why are revolutions so rare? Why do the masses sometimes clap and cheer for centuries on end, doing everything the man on…

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“THE LAST 500 YEARS HAVE WITNESSED A breathtaking series of revolutions. The earth has been united into a single ecological and historical…

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“To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and…

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“In the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution created a huge urban proletariat, and socialism spread because no other creed managed to answer…

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“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it…

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“The Cognitive Revolution that turned Homo sapiens from an insignificant ape into the master of the world did not require any noticeable…

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“less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind,…

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“At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It has demonstrated again and again that there is no…

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“Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to…

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“In order to mount a revolution, numbers are never enough. Revolutions are usually made by small networks of agitators rather than by…

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“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new…

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“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.”

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“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order…

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I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of…

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“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled…

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“the Chinese air-purification market is booming.”

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“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified…

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“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in…

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“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.…

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“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,…

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“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread…

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“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something”

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